Audacity Forum

What version number of Audacity? What make of USB interface? Is it a mixer device (can you choose between analogue and S/PDIF in Mixer Toolbar)? Can you choose between them in ALSAmixer? The best place to ask about PortAudio and Audacity is on the audacity-devel subscription mailing list. Gale

@ Per - If you press "Reply" to this message, Is "Notify me when a reply is posted" checked on the Options tab underneath the Preview / Submit buttons? The bug is that you must click somewhere on Linux whereas on Mac & Windows the track automatically has focus without clickin...

the link for compiled lame.exe executable is wrong in the documentation here >> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Audacity_1.2.6_with_LAME_at_the_command_line Thanks. I've updated the link to provide a package for LAME 3.98.3. The "Lame v3.98.3 for Audacity on Wind...

I use the following sequence: 1) I use CDex 1.51 to "rip" a CD, saving the tracks as individual files on disk. 2) I "Import" one file (track) into Audacity 1.3.12 and make any edit changes required. 3) I "Export" the file adding the values in the "metadata" t...

On WIndows and Mac you should never see that "system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running" message, because opening another instance of Audacity should open an IPC path to the first instance to pass on the command and then quit the second instance. I would guess either thi...

mewalden wrote:Using the USB Audio Codec sort of works, but it is only monophonic. The Behringer device gives stereo. Is there a way to make the CODEC stereo? My dropdown box identifies it as a microphone.

If you are on Windows 7 or Vista you may want to set the default format to stereo.



Gale

Can I run this in batch mode? i.e. Can I configure/set popmute, and then run it across all of my dance/trance mp3s which have an annoying kick drum? Only built-in effects can be used in the 1.3 batch mode at File > Edit Chains. You could import all the files, Select All then run the effect and come...

bgravato wrote:does audacity create any file in /var/run ? Many apps create a .pid file in /var/run with the pid of the running process.

No. On Ubuntu, var/run only contains a small handful of .pid files for system processes.


Gale

I'm running the portable version of audacity 1.3.12 on Windows XP. If you mean Audacity Portable it's a completely different project from Audacity - based on our code, but they modify Audacity as they see fit. It comes with a the mod-script-pipe.dll in the 'modules' subdir. When I try to connect to...

SoundMapper is only a "virtual" device that uses whatever is the current default device in "Sound" in the Windows Control Panel. If you want to record from the UFO just choose "USB Audio Codec" in the Audacity Devices Preferences. Stereo Mix is irrelevant to the UFO. On...